#silent

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ↗

— Emily Carr

#digging #does #explain #grows #growth

The eyes those silent tongues of love. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#love #silent #those #tongues

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#convey #creating #emotion #film #life

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#apt #change #circumstances #dwells #especially

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things. ↗

— Felicia Hemans

#fortitude #hearts #hoping #silent #suffering

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#convince #ears #every #eyes #fingertips

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#appearing #around #big #came #come

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. ↗

— Anna Katharine Green

#apparent #artists #awakened #beauty #because

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat. ↗

— George Grossmith

#dignity #foot #i #left #mat